Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752454AbXJ0ElV (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:41:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751006AbXJ0ElN (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:41:13 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:60026 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750945AbXJ0ElM (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:41:12 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Andrew Morton , kir@swsoft.com, containers@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, kir@openvz.org, Cedric Le Goater , Pavel Emelyanov , Sukadev Bhattiprolu Subject: Re: [Devel] [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) References: <20071027002448.GH30533@stusta.de> <20071027020408.GO30533@stusta.de> <20071026191845.fd0f75c8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071027040346.GQ30533@stusta.de> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:40:12 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20071027040346.GQ30533@stusta.de> (Adrian Bunk's message of "Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:03:46 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1134 Lines: 28 Adrian Bunk writes: > There isn't any hard semantics behind what is marked EXPERIMENTAL and > what not. In it's current state, we could even consider removing the > EXPERIMENTAL option and all dependencies on EXPERIMENTAL. Well I do know at least some of the things that depend on experimental are legitimate. I wonder if the problem is that we don't police experimental well enough. > Currently CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=n would cost a distribution a three digit > number of device drivers plus several features like e.g. NFSv4. I can see a distribution carefully cherry picking things, that the have an intimate knowledge about out of experimental but it doesn't sound right for taking things out of EXPERIMENTAL to be routine. I know I'm a little slow about getting around to it but when ever I have a feature that isn't EXPERIMENTAL anymore I remove the tag. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/